- [Aaron] Unboxing the Traxxas Unlimited Desert Racer guys,
you know I always read the comments.
And Traxxas does too, they contacted me and said
listen, I know that the audience really wants to see the
UDR, please, we want to ship one out to you
so you can show off what this truck does
and discover it for yourself.
And I said yeah, no problem, get it out.
I'll have it on the show, we'll unbox it.
I'll go outside and have some fun with it.
I'm still waiting for copious amounts of snow
to melt here.
But that's no excuse with a truck like this.
I want to rip into the box
and see what this truck really is all about.
Looks like customs already had their way in there.
(laughs)
Oh yeah!
Now everybody must think I have like a ton of
Traxxas radios and I do.
The secret about owning multiple radios like this,
cause I keep them stocked for when I go out and bash,
is just put a piece of masking tape on the bottom.
Take the 10 seconds,
to take a marker and just mark what model it is.
That way, you'll always know which radio is which.
If, you suffer from that problem.
Nice, I have seen videos of this.
I have not seen one in person.
I was actually shocked,
watch this,
at what I saw.
Man!
Okay, the first thing I thought of when I saw this truck
in the videos,
was that it must be exactly like the Slash.
But it is far from a Slash.
I'm a fan of the Slash too.
Ooh!
That should be on a different website because
that is beautiful.
(laughs)
Okay, so I took a few minutes off camera here
just to kind of familiarize myself
with the instruction book.
Yeah, I haven't gone through this truck at all yet.
And I kind of wanted to explore it with you
but I want to point out a few things I learned after
going to the Traxxas Youtube site
to watch their unveiling and unboxing
of this particular truck.
And for those that haven't seen
it or seen this vehicle before,
have a look at these bumpers.
This is going to come into play okay?
So have a look at the bumper,
very unique, very different here.
Notice behind the bumper,
there are holes in the body.
But they are not actually the full length
of the bumper itself.
Keep that in mind, I'll come back to that.
This body,
the first thing we normally wanna do when we get a new RC
is to rip the the body off and have a look at the insides.
Just so we can really appreciate what we've purchased
or brought home or what the track has to offer as a whole.
Well, I'm very used to not being able to remove bodies
or body panels on large scale machines
like my fifth scale.
♪ Da da daa ♪
Project large over there sitting waiting dusty
for the race track to start up this year.
I can take this this whole cage off
and you'd think in the Traxxas style
you'd have this flip up or flip to the side
or anything like that.
But in fact, this cage and body panel
are secured by many many screws.
Well, how can I get to the battery you must be asking it.
And that's one of the unique things about this vehicle
and what makes it so different.
Is that the battery is accessible from underneath.
Oh, no looking under there too soon.
(laughs)
In fact, you don't really take these body panels off.
Look at the detail, I wanna get into this as well.
But first, let me talk about it.
Two screws back here, a screw in the back quarter panel,
okay, and then two screws on the side.
That's quite a bit, that takes a lot of work.
What about these four up here that also get removed?
And then when you go to take the body panel off,
you actually shift these holes around
and you can see this on the Traxxas video as well.
You shift the body around and then take the panels off.
Now, let's get into the batteries
cause I know I touched on that.
But I wanted to point out,
why would they do that? Okay?
Why would they do something like that
and make it so difficult?
Because we touched on it already,
you won't need to be getting under here
unless you're doing adjustments or maintenance
or something like that,
getting in there and doing a good cleaning.
What this is doing is making this truck extra strong.
Same principle in our fifth scale vehicles,
the gas powered one.
Watch this.
(car knocking)
That's a Lexan panel
but you're not getting that Lexan shake.
It's actually mounted right into a channel
down here that stops that irritating shake
from Lexan.
Okay?
So that's in itself brilliant.
The way it's all screwed in acts as extra strength.
If you have a wipe out with this truck,
I imagine, much like my large scale ones.
These ones can take much more of a beating
because it is attached.
You're not gonna be having a lot of rips happen
because it is attached in different points.
Whereas unattachment, you know we get Lexan
that rips all the time.
Okay, enough talk, holy cow this guys talks forever.
♪ Ohhh, look at this. ♪
Look at this, this is just like on my Polaris RZR
that's actually having some upgrades done on it right now
and a recent recall.
But this here,
these control arms, look how thick this is.
And they're not cut out in the middle.
(knocking on car)
That's a solid piece!
Very unique, very strong.
This, my friends, is where the battery goes.
I haven't done this yet, I just read about it.
Ah-ha!
So you can run up to a 6S Lipo in this truck
or a single 4S.
Or you can run dual 2S's you know.
Oh my, this is brand new to me.
And I'm using one hand, there we go.
(laughs)
That is totally what she said.
Cmonnn, friendly for my family.
Kay, caution, to prevent damage to your vehicles
electronics while running in soft sand,
and make the minor adjustments.
Okay, I don't have any soft sand around here.
Its not much of a desert where I live.
Its more like an Alaskan Plain.
Let's talk details,
any unboxing video you see worth it salt
is going to mention all the accessories
that Traxxas is putting into their models these days
to make them look super pro-scale, right?
Got the back radiators blowing back here,
you got the open rezis,
well they're actually plastic
but I mean open so you can see them.
They're like, not hiding.
For the suspension, all the individual hoses,
just like in my side by side, I've got
dual fire extinguishers as well.
Because if you're driving, or if you're a passenger,
you want to be able to get to them as soon as possible.
Amazing, guys.
Like, two extra spare tires.
You've got a jack in the back, does it work?
No, but it's very cool that it's even there
or they thought of these kind of details
to replicate the full size.
Monster shocks on the inside.
Watch the cantilever elbows come up.
That is how much down-force you can apply
to the truck right here.
You can actually see the suspension working.
Is that cool or what?
I'll probably stiffen up the springs back here,
am I able to do that?
Yeah, right up in behind there.
I'll probably add a little bit more preload to it
just because I don't know--
yeah, this is like open Lexan under here.
If you land hard, you can actually probably burn a hole
right through it.
So I'll make it a little bit stiffer
even though it's still is cold outside.
Listen, I want to talk to you guys briefly about
shock and suspension oil.
I have so many people write to me all the time
and say what is the proper oil
that I should be using for my blank vehicle.
Right, I'm gonna say blank
just insert your RC vehicle there.
And really, it's really hard for me to tell you guys that
because number one, it depends on the type of RC you have
and what type of shocks you have on there.
But more importantly what is your altitude
and what is the weather like?
Because the weather impacts the weight of oil
that you would have in your trucks.
Now let's face it, a lot of us just want one oil
that's gonna be good all year round.
But if I don't know what location you're in
or what your temperatures are like,
I could be giving you bad advice.
So I try not to give out that advice.
All I say is just go out, talk to your local hobby store,
if you're able to.
And get like three different bottles of oil.
If you're that set on it,
try to get a medium viscosity really, because
if you get a low one, it acts like there's nothing in there.
But if you get one that's too thick,
your suspension will be very very
stiff when it's cold outside.
So, thoughts to keep in mind, alright?
This truck is designed with the realistic driving experience
as the priority: excessively large jumps and hard landings
you know, basically will result in bent or broken parts.
They didn't say that, I did.
Here are the batteries I'm gonna use,
two 3S Lipo's 5000 milliamp hours each.
Gonna slide it in, you know what I really like about this?
Look at this, in the top right in the chassis
you no longer have battery wires hanging down, hey?
You just plug your battery into the chassis
and the ESC is right above.
So, really cool!
♪ Da-Da-Da-Du-daaaa. ♪
Okay, second battery.
Piece of cake.
Sliding them both into place.
Snap it down,
put the battery tray cover back in place,
was it that easy or did I do something wrong here?
Feels like I've got some resistance.
Because I have the clip in the way.
Slide it into place, push the tab down,
♪ Ta-daaaa! ♪
Nice and flat surface on the bottom.
Okay, radio on,
door open,
ESC,
(fan whizzing)
extra awesome!
And the fan on the back!
What's up Jem!
- Hey!
- [Man] Hey!!
The fan on the back actually sounds like the fans
that would be running on the radiator.
Welcome darling.
- Why thank you.
- [Man] Oohh, smoking!
- Wow! So is...
- [Man] Yes! I Know!
I was saying YouTube is the wrong site.
This is a little... a lot of sexy in this room right now.
(laughs)
A huge truck, I wanna give her a rip,
can you help me with filming?
- It's so pretty, are you sure you want to take it out
on this muddy day?
- [Man] Yeah it's not too bad,
but it's so nice and clean.
- [Jem] It is.
- [Man] And it feels soft, sa--
- [Jem] And supple.
- [Man] I know, we need to get out of here.
I need to go and play, let's get dirty.
First turn of the tires.
(tires spinning)
Success power, success power? Something like that.
- [Jem] I like it!
(car whizzing)
- [Man] You see it down at the end there?
- [Jem] I do.
- [Man] You got your spot?
3...2...1
Half throttle,
full throttle.
- [Jem] Whoa.
(laughs)
That was faster than the zoom.
- [Man] Here try it on this side.
Can't believe how much snow we have in April right now.
Power, pure power out of this machine guys.
(car zooming)
I am surprised at how much traction this machine has.
I've been repping up and down here,
we're only gonna do a few select shots for you guys
cause I know the video's kind of long already.
So, look behind you, look at all the tracks we have there.
Look at it, everywhere.
Rippin it up,
on the ice, on the snow.
Oh no!
I high centered, and I'm stuck, can I get out?
Yep! High centered.
But we've had so much snow here, look at that.
It basically burned a hole right through the snow.
Melted it.
Traction, nothing but traction!
I am actually also very surprised at how well
it soaks up the bumps like
suspension wise this thing hasn't wanted to flip at all.
(car whizzing)
It can go faster! I'm only going at half-throttle!
I enjoy a good donut.
Here we go!
Woo-hoo!
- [Jem] Well that was interesting.
- [Man] On it's side!
Okay now I know it wasn't the most fantastic jump,
but the snow is trying to melt, and then it freezes,
and then it tries to melt, and freezes.
There aint no jumping going on right now
that's why I've been in the shop so much.
But guys, I had a great time unboxing this for you.
It's obviously got tons of power,
in a few weeks it's gonna be beautiful here
and we will have more of the UDR from Traxxas.
I got it to land on it's side.
- [Jem] That's good.
Yeah!
- [Man] I do what I can around here.
- [Jem] Okay well, I call dibs
you get to go get it from the snow.
- [Man] Oh yeah, of course, I go get it.
No problem, that's exactly what I'm here for.
Guys thanks a lot for tuning in today,
comment, like scription-- like scription?
- [Jem] That's a way you made it more efficient.
- [Man] Uh caw-like-scription down below.
Anyways guys I'll put details about this truck
in the video description down below!
Comment and all that stuff and see ya--
I did a terrible job on this outro, cut it out.
(dramatic action music)
It lives!
It lives to go another day!
(heavy rock instrumentals)